Hi. I think this is a great project but am concerned that development seems to have slowed down and projected milestones have not been met. Can someone please comment on the commitment (RedHat?) to moving this project to a viable 1.0 release? And if that commitment is there, will there be a goal to maintain compatibility with the jBPM Designer? I personally think it is essential to have solid eclipse-based jBPM tools for the project to be efficient and viable.

Thanks for your interest. Despite the appearance that development has slowed down, be assured that we are working feverishly to get to a stable release soon. There are still quite a few bugzillas open and we are trying to close as many of these as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, I am currently the only developer working on this project and I do have other commitments outside of this work.

The biggest issue right now is that this editor MUST be compliant with the full BPMN 2.0 spec first which, as you know, is a monster. Once that has been achieved I can work towards "dumbing it down" for jBPM (a BPMN 2.0 subset) and even this work is not trivial because the generic editor has to be designed to allow for this kind of customization.

I personally think it is essential to have solid eclipse-based jBPM tools for the project to be efficient and viable.

Hi Herman,

I appreciate your enthusiasm for the project, but in today's Open Source, sitting on the sidelines and cheering on the team is not enough. I'm sure they will welcome any of your contributions to help ensure the project is viable.

Thanks Denis. We're very aware of the open source ecosystem, and in fact are trying to convince others in our organization of the value of direct involvement. In the meantime, by way of modest justification, I can say that some of the open source based applications we do develop will be shared with the community and thus expand the ecosystem.

That sounds like a familiar tune to me. I once worked for a company whose management was very much focused on the bottom line and could not understand how giving away software was the foundation of a sound business plan